Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms (Unicode block)

Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms is the name of a Unicode block U+FF00–FFEF, provided so that older encodings containing both halfwidth and fullwidth characters can have lossless translation to/from Unicode. It is the second-to-last block of the Basic Multilingual Plane, followed only by the short Specials block at U+FFF0–FFFF. Its block name in Unicode 1.0 was Halfwidth and Fullwidth Variants. Range U+FF61–FF9F encodes halfwidth forms of katakana and related punctuation in a transposition of A1 to DF in the JIS X 0201 encoding – see half-width kana.

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enHalfwidth and Fullwidth Forms is the name of a Unicode block U+FF00–FFEF, provided so that older encodings containing both halfwidth and fullwidth characters can have lossless translation to/from Unicode. It is the second-to-last block of the Basic Multilingual Plane, followed only by the short Specials block at U+FFF0–FFFF. Its block name in Unicode 1.0 was Halfwidth and Fullwidth Variants. Range U+FF61–FF9F encodes halfwidth forms of katakana and related punctuation in a transposition of A1 to DF in the JIS X 0201 encoding – see half-width kana.
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enHalfwidth and Fullwidth Forms is the name of a Unicode block U+FF00–FFEF, provided so that older encodings containing both halfwidth and fullwidth characters can have lossless translation to/from Unicode. It is the second-to-last block of the Basic Multilingual Plane, followed only by the short Specials block at U+FFF0–FFFF. Its block name in Unicode 1.0 was Halfwidth and Fullwidth Variants. Range U+FF01–FF5E reproduces the characters of ASCII 21 to 7E as fullwidth forms. U+FF00 does not correspond to a fullwidth ASCII 20 (space character), since that role is already fulfilled by U+3000 "ideographic space". Range U+FF61–FF9F encodes halfwidth forms of katakana and related punctuation in a transposition of A1 to DF in the JIS X 0201 encoding – see half-width kana. The range U+FFA0–FFDC encodes halfwidth forms of compatibility jamo characters for Hangul, in a transposition of their 1974 standard layout. It is used in the mapping of some IBM encodings for Korean, such as IBM code page 933, which allows the use of the Shift Out and Shift In characters to shift to a double-byte character set. Since the double-byte character set could contain compatibility jamo, halfwidth variants are needed to provide round-trip compatibility. Range U+FFE0–FFEE includes fullwidth and halfwidth symbols.
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ASCII
Basic Multilingual Plane
Category:Hangul jamo
Category:Kana
Category:Latin-script Unicode blocks
Category:Unicode blocks
CJK Symbols and Punctuation (Unicode block)
Enclosed Alphanumerics
Halfwidth and fullwidth forms
Half-width kana
Hangul
Hangul Compatibility Jamo
Hangul Jamo (Unicode block)
Ideographic space
International Committee for Information Technology Standards
JIS X 0201
Katakana
Katakana (Unicode block)
KS C 5601
Latin script
Latin script in Unicode
SC 2
Script (Unicode)
Shift Out and Shift In characters
Specials (Unicode block)
Unicode
Unicode block
Variant form (Unicode)
Rangeend
enFFEF
Rangestart
enFF00
SameAs
3F1Aq
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
Q3513222
UFF00
Unicodeblock Halbbreite und vollbreite Formen
半形及全形字符 (Unicode區段)
Script
Hangul
Katakana
Latin script
Script (Unicode)
Subject
Category:Hangul jamo
Category:Kana
Category:Latin-script Unicode blocks
Category:Unicode blocks
Symbols
enVariant width characters
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